Sara Ferro

Sara Ferro is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on improving Machine Learning and Deep Learning models to digitalise documents and perform Natural Language Processing on textual data and Social Network Analysis. She received the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics (DIAS) at Cà Foscari, University of Venice, Italy. The Ph.D. project was in collaboration with the Center of Cultural Heritage (CCHT) group at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). She received a M.Sc. degree in Control and Automation Engineering and a second level Master in Machine Learning from the University of Padua, Italy. Her research focus is on developing machine learning and computer vision algorithms for supporting Historical Document Analysis and Ancient Handwritten recognition.